Books

• Will books metadata be provided to discovery services?

   

  We’ll begin making book metadata available in December 2012, and will provide it to all the major discovery services. 

• Are the books in the program being preserved?

   

  Yes, the books in Books at JSTOR are preserved in Portico (www.portico.org), ITHAKA’s digital preservation service. 

   

• Is there perpetual access for books?

   

  Yes, books are available for purchase, and libraries have perpetual access rights to the titles they purchase through Books at JSTOR. 

• Is there perpetual use/access of a PDF once it’s downloaded?

   

  Yes, downloaded PDFs do not expire and authorized users have access to them in perpetuity.

• Are books compatible with citation management tools?

   

  Yes, book citations can be saved and exported, and are compatible the citation management tools that JSTOR currently supports.

• How much of a book is viewable if it hasn’t been purchased?

   

  The Table of Contents, which includes 100-word extracts of each chapter, will be viewable even if the book has not been purchased. 

• Can you search within a book?

   

  Through the online viewer, you can search within the selected chapter of the book.

• Will books show up in search results if my library hasn’t purchased any?

   

  By default, when an authenticated user performs a search on JSTOR, only licensed content is returned. Users have the ability to change this setting to search all available content. Browsing (via the Browse by Publisher, by Title and by Discipline links) will display all content (licensed and unlicensed). 

• Are trials available?

   

  Yes, we are offering access to a sample set of titles in order to help librarians evaluate the functionality of books on JSTOR. For more information, contact participation@jstor.org. 

• Does JSTOR offer a means for libraries to avoid duplicate purchases of existing print and electronic books?

   

  Yes, JSTOR offers a holdings comparison service free of charge so that libraries can avoid duplicative purchases. Please contact us at participation@jstor.org for more information.

• Are MARC records available? In what format?

   

  MARC records are offered free of charge, and are in the MARC21 format. MARC records may be downloaded from within the “Administration: Institutional Accounts” section of your MyJSTOR administrator account on JSTOR. 

• What types of usage reports are offered for books?

   

  COUNTER’s BR 2 (the standard COUNTER report for books) and BR 4 (turnaways for single user books) are available. 

   

• Are books offered in different models?

   

  Yes, all books are available in a single-user model, and many are available in a multi-user model. For more information on these 2 models, please visit http://about.jstor.org/sites/default/files/general/BooksGuide112012.pdf.

• Which publishers are participating? And what titles are available?

   

  At present, 30 university presses and other scholarly publishers are participating in Books at JSTOR, and we are regularly adding new publishers to the program. More than 15,000 books are now available. For the latest title list, please visit http://books.jstor.org.

• Can individual titles be purchased?

   

  Yes, all books are available for purchase as individual titles. In addition, we are offering customizable discipline and publisher collections. 

• What format are books in?

   

  Books are downloadable as PDFs. For books in the single-user model, those PDFs employ FileOpen software. Books are also viewable online via a Flash-based viewer. There is also a non-Flash viewer available for devices that require it. 

• Can you search books and journals simultaneously?

   

  Yes, books are cross-searchable with journals on the JSTOR platform. After searching, you may select from tabs at the top of the search results page in order to limit results by content type. 

Books - Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA)

• What is the functionality of books prior to being triggered for purchase? Are there concurrency limits?

   

  Books function in accordance with the model they would be purchased under if triggered. For example, if a library has specified that triggered titles are to be purchased in the multi-user model, books in the DDA corpus will support an unlimited number of simultaneous viewers, with no restrictions on downloading or printing. See more information on available models.

• How do titles in the DDA corpus appear in search results?

   

  Titles placed in the DDA corpus appear as licensed content on the JSTOR platform, even if they have not been purchased. By default, searches on JSTOR return only licensed content, and titles in the DDA corpus will appear in search results.

• Is there any charge for usage that occurs before a trigger is reached?

   

  No, any usage below the trigger threshold is free.